Introduction

Youth & Adult Literacy Rates Datasets Link

The data is a CSV from Kaggle. This dataset contains data on literacy rates for youth and adults in various regions and countries. It has two csv files.

The dataset can be used to help policy-makers understand where interventions are needed to improve literacy rates

Analysing:

• Comparing the literacy rates of different
  • regions
  • countries
  • age groups
  • genders

Why Literacy Project?

Growing up, many people in my community, neighborhood and family were not able to read and write. So I wanted to see the literacy rate in recent years and picked it for the project

Library Loading

• library(dplyr): using for data manipulation

• library(tidyverse): using to transform and better present data

• library(ggplot2): using for data visualization and plotting charts

• library(plotly): using for creating interactive web-based graphs

## Warning: package 'tidyverse' was built under R version 4.3.2

Reading in Data

## Rows: 4,955
## Columns: 7
## $ index           <dbl> 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, …
## $ Region          <chr> "Central and Southern Asia", "Central and Southern Asi…
## $ Country         <chr> "Afghanistan", "Afghanistan", "Afghanistan", "Afghanis…
## $ Year            <dbl> 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, …
## $ Age             <chr> "15+", "15+", "15+", "15-24", "15-24", "15-24", "25-64…
## $ Gender          <chr> "female", "male", "total", "female", "male", "total", …
## $ `Literacy rate` <dbl> 0.1761206, 0.4541710, 0.3174112, 0.3211322, 0.6187907,…

## Rows: 202
## Columns: 9
## $ Country                           <chr> "Afghanistan", "Albania", "Algeria",…
## $ Region                            <chr> "SA", "ECA", "MENA", "ECA", "SSA", "…
## $ `Sub-region`                      <chr> NA, "EECA", NA, "WE", "ESA", NA, NA,…
## $ `Least developed countries (LDC)` <chr> "LDC", NA, NA, NA, "LDC", NA, NA, NA…
## $ `Africa sub-regions`              <chr> NA, NA, "Northern Africa", NA, "Sout…
## $ `Africa region`                   <chr> NA, NA, "All", NA, "All", NA, NA, NA…
## $ Total                             <dbl> 43, 98, 81, NA, NA, NA, NA, 99, NA, …
## $ Male                              <dbl> 55, 99, 87, NA, NA, NA, NA, 99, NA, …
## $ Female                            <dbl> 30, 98, 75, NA, NA, NA, NA, 99, NA, …

Countries with Higest Literacy rate

Countries with Lowest Literacy rate

Literacy rates of different age groups by year

Mean literacy rates by age group

Progress of a Region’s literacy rate over time

Progress of a Region’s literacy rate over time

Literacy rates by country of Sub-Saharan Africa Region

Literacy rates of countries of Sub-Saharan Africa Region

Literacy rates of Year 2011 & 2013 of Sub-Saharan Africa Region

Literacy rates of countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia Region

Literacy rates of countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia Region

Male & Female Literacy rate by region

Countries with High Female Literacy rate

## # A tibble: 201 × 4
##    Country     Male Female Difference
##    <chr>      <dbl>  <dbl>      <dbl>
##  1 Malta         93     96         -3
##  2 Mongolia      98     99         -1
##  3 Seychelles    95     96         -1
##  4 Uruguay       98     99         -1
##  5 Argentina     99     99          0
##  6 Belarus      100    100          0
##  7 Brazil        93     93          0
##  8 Colombia      95     95          0
##  9 Costa Rica    98     98          0
## 10 Honduras      87     87          0
## # ℹ 191 more rows

Countries with Low Female Literacy rate

## # A tibble: 201 × 4
##    Country                   Male Female Difference
##    <chr>                    <dbl>  <dbl>      <dbl>
##  1 Afghanistan                 55     30         25
##  2 Central African Republic    50     26         24
##  3 Benin                       54     31         23
##  4 Nepal                       79     60         19
##  5 Morocco                     83     65         18
##  6 Nigeria                     71     53         18
##  7 Burkina Faso                50     33         17
##  8 Sierra Leone                52     35         17
##  9 India                       82     66         16
## 10 Eritrea                     84     69         15
## # ℹ 191 more rows

Male & Female Literacy rate over time

Summary

• More programs are required for females &
• 65+ age group
• Data collection is inconsistent from year to year
• Need more data to compare the regions or countries